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“I have the Jâtaka; and I have thee”: Fables and Kipling’s Political Zoology

Nagai, Kaori (2021) “I have the Jâtaka; and I have thee”: Fables and Kipling’s Political Zoology. In: Trivedi, Harish and Montefiore, Janet E., eds. Kipling in India: India in Kipling. Routledge India, pp. 159-171. ISBN 0-367-54728-7. E-ISBN 978-1-003-09032-8. (doi:10.4324/9781003090328) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:98508)

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Abstract

The Jataka tells the story of an elephant with an iron-ring on his leg, with which he was fettered by the King’s hunters, who had captured him. This chapter focuses on the roles of the Jatakas in Kim, and adresses why animal fables, which played an important part in creating an imperial vision in the Jungle Books, had to be edited out from Kim to knock it into shape. Kipling’s engagement with the Jatakas was, of course, part of the nineteenth-century Orientalist enterprise. Kipling was happy to engage with the Jataka-style storytelling in the early 1890s, just as he had done in his earlier Indian stories.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.4324/9781003090328
Uncontrolled keywords: Kipling. fable, India, Jataka
Subjects: P Language and Literature
P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of English
Depositing User: Kaori Nagai
Date Deposited: 29 Nov 2022 23:09 UTC
Last Modified: 11 May 2024 13:30 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/98508 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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